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the winners. the bears beat their division rivals 27-20. >> bears, bears. >> the bears. >> incredible rivalry there. >> this is one to keep your eyes on. >> when rogers goes down, that is not a fair fight anymore. >> no. coming up, the special ingredient in some ultra expensive ice cream that makes it glow in the dark. >> disgusting. and the young, attractive women making money by selling their eggs. concern for the donor's safety, though. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by consumer cellular. . you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by consumer cellular.
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♪ i've got my brains ♪ you've got the ♪ i've got my brains ♪ you've got the looks ♪ let's make lots of money ♪ you have got the brawn ♪ i've got lots of brains ♪ a growing number of young women have found a way to make lots of money by donating their eggs. >> hundreds of thousands of women since the mid '80s have donated their eggs to give the gift of birth to childless couples, but at what cost to their own health? here's abc's cynthia mcfadden. >> reporter: we know how valuable healthy donor eggs can be. $5,000. $10,000 if you are asian says
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this ad. guess what, if you're a model with all that implies, $50,000. >> does it make you nervous? >> i think by this point it is my sixth time. i don't get nervous anymore. >> reporter: anna cane is a freelance writer who said she made $60,000 as a donor. >> reporter: so as far as you're concerned, there's no reason not to do this. >> no. >> good. you are ready? >> yes. >> reporter: today is egg-retrieval day. the culmination of weeks of hormone injections to stimulate her ovaries to produce more eggs than normal. dr. joel batfin is her doctor. is egg donation essentially risk-free as far as you're concerned? >> nothing is risk free. there is anesthesia and procedure but the right answer is yes, it is risk-free. >> reporter: there is a rare condition found in less than 1% of patients ovarian hype -- hypertension syndrome.
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emma smith, not his patient, was so sick with it she spent six days in the hospital and shot this video diary. >> i feel that they should have gone out of their way to make me a bit more aware of any possible side effects in the actual process and everything like that. >> reporter: dr. jennifer schneider worries there is no national egg donor registry to track what happens to this exploding group of young women donating their eggs. her daughter was a three-time egg donor who died at 31 of colon cancer. >> the egg donors are not considered patients. they are considered more like vendors. >> reporter: she wonders if the repeated hormone injections fuel cancer in some way even though studies suggest there is no proof that infertility treatments cause cancer. we were shocked to discover there has never been, not even one, long-term study of egg donors. >> doesn't worry you that there haven't been studies done following egg donors. it doesn't worry you that there haven't been good studies done
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of egg donors? not really. >> reporter: anna said she is thrilled she has helped to create three sets of twins and hopes there will be more. what we can say for certain right now is that there are no known long-term effects from egg donation, but that is a world of difference from being able to say no effects from egg donations. cynthia mcfadden, abc news, new york. >> fascinating stuff. >> the kind of thing you never really think about. these women really are giving the gift of a child to women that can't do it on their own and they have their own effects, obviously. but it is interesting they are viewed as vendors. essentially what they are. they are selling something from their body, but nobody is worried about what is happening to them. >> the first pregnancy from a donated egg in 1983 and since then there are a few hundred thousand of these. it is happening every day. >> every day and women that are healthy going to these things and some things are happening
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that are raising some flags. >> time for a study, right? >> yeah. never too late to try something new. meet a man who is flying high on his 100th birthday. i got to see this. and ahead in our next half-hour, the rate way and the wrong way to wear the thigh high boots. they're becoming all the rage from hollywood to the white house. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. the white
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>> very few of us are brave enough to take that big jump out of a plane. it could take years or even decades to muster up the courage. >> or maybe never. but one man in paris, california, took an entire century, but better late than
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never, right? kabc's rob mcmillan has more. >> reporter: for palm deserted resident vern maynard, it is a big day. >> you are on camera. >> reporter: yes, it is his 100th birthday, but that is not why we were out here. you see, he's about to do something he's been dreaming of for years. vern maynard is going sky diving. are you nervous? >> no. no, i'm not nervous. why should i be nervous? >> reporter: why would he be? it's not like this is his first jump, is it? how many times have you done this before? >> never before. >> reporter: your first time today? >> right, uh-huh. >> can we have you sit down here, vern? >> you are set and ready to go. >> reporter: after waiting for the cloud cover to go away, it was go time. here at sky dive paris, although
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they have never taken a 100-year-old up before they say it is a good example of how these days almost anyone can skydive. >> there are exceptions, but the sport has gotten to a place now with the way the equipment and training is that anybody who really wants to do this is capable of doing it. >> what did you think? >> i say let's do it again. my golly. that's wonderful. >> reporter: so vern maynard obviously isn't afraid of trying new things. this is a guy who's parasailed, jumped off of the back deck of a cruise ship and jumped out of a plane on his 100th birthday. what's next? >> i think i have to do it again. >> reporter: for your 101st birthday? >> yeah, right. my 120th maybe. >> reporter: this is rob mcmillan for abc news. >> good and he will do it again but will wait another 20 years before he jumps out of a plane. i don't blame him. >> when you are that age not a lot can get a rise out of you. did you see the smile on his face after it was over? almost as much as you, and you are only 90.
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not even a hundred yet. >> thank you, john. that was great. face when it was over. almost as much as you, and you are knot only 90. not even a hundred yet. >> thank you, john. that was great.
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time for "the mix." if you time for "the mix" if you have a phobia of spiders, arack phobia -- arachnephobia, you may want to hit the mute button. a woman in britain, lives in london. she buys a bag of bananas. she is noticing there's a bunch of white spots on it and wonders what is up with that. sees hundreds of spiders hatching as she eats the banana and the big guys are still in the bag. these are not regular spiders. they are brazilian wandering spiders, aka banana spiders. highly aggressive, venomous spiders, and certified as the most toxic by the "guinness book of world records." taylor attempted to return them
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to the market. i think i would have doused them with lighter fluid and set them on fire but she's okay. and wow. if it was regular house spiders that would be freaky enough, but that's the kind of thing you go to the psych ward and don't come out. >> the white spots got me. >> those were the babies. and there's mama. >> the eggs hatching. immediately think what would i do in that situation? and i can see myself trying to flush it down the toilet. because in that moment -- [ flushing sounds ] >> and shriek like a little girl. >> i guess you would shriek like a little girl but that is easier. >> hopefully moving on to something tastier than spiders on your bananas. check out glow in the dark ice cream. it is pretty cool. there is the creator. it is a british guy that has a place called lick me i'm delicious. he specializes in exotic ice cream flavors. this glow in the dark ice cream is made with jellyfish proteins -- the same thing that allows a
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marine organism to produce the light in their body. not to worry i have been eating it a while and i'm not glowing anywhere. it will cost $220 a scoop. >> 220 a scoop. stick with baskin robbins. [ belch ] >> i will do vanilla. >> as we said it starts out glow in the dark, does it come out glow in the dark? >> i don't know. he says he's not going anywhere. i have a feeling he's trying to -- >> let's get scientific are we alone in the universe? statistically, it seems impossible that we would be. a study from the kepler telescope found 40 billion stars alone in our galaxy. there are billions of galaxy. our galaxy alone has 40 billion. 8.8 billion of those stars have the goldilocks effect that means they are just right. not too far or too close to the sun and it is an earth-sized star. there are 8.8 billion earth-like planets revolving around the sun in our galaxy alone. >> and you don't believe in aliens. >> you have to think at least something.
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. breaking news this morning on "world news now", the intense investigation inside of new jersey's largest mall. shoppers running for cover after they hear gunshots. the latest overnight. torture victim. one of the captives held in cleveland for years opens up and describes her ordeal. the heartbreaking account from michelle knight. professional bullying. the scandal surrounding a 320-pound player from the miami dolphins, the words exchange and the nfl's investigation. later, the sounds of cher that delighted fans and contestants on "dancing with the stars." and the dancers booted from the stage. it is coming up in "the skinny" on this tuesday, november 5th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez.
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>> good tuesday morning, folks. we will begin with breaking news from new jersey where a major search is now underway for a gunman who opened fire at a shopping mall. >> police believe the suspect is still inside the garden state plaza likely near the nordstrom store. many shoppers and store employees are holed up in the store waiting for the all-clear from police. >> this woman was shopping for vitamins when she heard the first shots. >> i ran into the storage room, i locked the door. there was two other people, and basically we called 911. we let them know we were inside the storage room. they said they know about the gunman, and he's still on the loose, and police is on their way. >> an eyewitness said the gunman appeared to be wearing body armor and a helmet with a visor pulled up. another said that the gunman was shooting at security cameras and not people. >> police response was massive.
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this is a sign of the times. amazing we have a shooting at a mall and nobody is injured. >> that's right. they were there instantaneously. police, s.w.a.t. team, the whole deal. there much eyewitnesses. a rough count said it seemed like 2,000 police cars in the parking lot. this is an enormous mall. it needs a lot of activity and needs a response this big, but the biggest problem is nobody knows where this guy is. >> could he be inside, has he already gone? police are actually escorting people in and out of the mall. they want to make sure they know exactly who goes in and out. the mall will be closed today, by the way. >> there is a little progress as far as what police are doing and what they are allowing to happen. initially there was a statement that came out that said police don't want anyone coming from the public to pick up family members. you guys stay away, we'll eventually get your family members to you. now they are saying you can come to a staging area, but that's because they want to clear everybody coming in, look at them and clear them before they leave.
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>> nordstrom tweeting all of the people in their store have been cleared. >> that's right. moving on. no charges expected to be filed after a bystander shot dead two men at a convenience store. in redding, the armed bystander approached them. >> it was a confrontation each robber shot once in the chest. the district attorney says the shooter was well within his rights to fire when his life was threatened. a connecticut college student released on bail after inadvertently triggering a three-hour campus lockdown. police descended on the central connecticut state university when the 21-year-old senior who was returning to a dorm wearing his ninja halloween costume which included a mask, plastic sword an fake gun. david kyem said he spent the weekend off campus and wore the costume back because the pieces wouldn't fit in his backpack. he's been charged with breach of peace. a tsa officer who survived the shooting at los angeles international airport is telling his story. using a cane as a result of his injuries, tony grigsby spoke outside of
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his l.a. home. first, he mourned the loss of his friend gerardo hernandez, who is the officer died, and then described coming face to face with the shooter. >> i was injured trying to help an elder man get to a safe area. i turned around and there was a gunman and shot me twice. >>er the other wounded tsa officer has been released from the hospital. the condition of the high school teacher, brian ludmer, who was shot in the calf has been upgraded from fair to good. one of the women held captive in the house of horrors in cleveland sharing more shocking details of the torture she suffered more than a decade. michelle knight sat down with dr. phil for an interview telling him how castro taped her mouth shut with duct tape and kept her chained to a pole in the basement and how he tied her to the wall with an extension cord. >> i was tied up like a fish, an ornament on the wall. i was hanging like this. my feet -- and i was tied by my neck and arms. >> reporter: knight has been the
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most focal of the three women rescued from the home. amanda berry and gina dejesus are writing about their ordeal but knight has declined to take part. details about the bullying scandal swirling around the miami dolphins right now. the team and leak are looking in to allegations that go beyond the usual locker room pranks that have been associated with teammates for quite a long time. abc's matt gutman reports from south florida. >> reporter: they are the biggest of men whz job it is -- whose job it is to play rough and 6'3", 320 pound richey incognito of the dolphins is one of the biggest and baddest out there. he calls himself "the beast" on twitter. once voted the dirtiest player in the league. the dolphins suspended him amid accusations that off the field he's actually a vicious bully. >> the nfl is going to conduct a review of the workplace, and we are going to give, as an organization, our full and complete cooperation with the nfl. >> reporter: incognito's alleged
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target -- his 300-pound teammate, second-year player, jonathan martin, seen on the had been series "hard knocks." >> big weirdo. >> what's that mean. >> reporter: nfl and team officials are investigating whether incognito so forced martin it forced him to leave the team. a hint of the hazing caught on hbo's "hard knocks." incognito bragging about hacking a junior's ipad. >> you may want to check your facebook. >> what's it say? >> i [ bleep ] i was going to put up something rude but i saw a picture of your girlfriend and felt bad. >> reporter: martin's treatment may have been more vicious. our partners at espn report incognito harassed him with a string of racist voice mails and texts, calling him the "n" word saying he would kill him. martin reached his breaking point last week when teammates refused to sit with him in the cafeteria. he stormed out, and his team
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says he is now reportedly in treatment. >> makes you wonder how many times guys in the league have been treated like this or similar and not said anything. >> reporter: richey incognito is fighting back, calling the accusations false and tweeting, "i want my name cleared." coaches say hazing is one thing but using racial slurs crosses the line. an analyst we spoke with said if martin comes back to the nfl he won't be met with jeers but possibly with sympathy for speaking out. matt gutman, abc news, davy, florida. an update on the new york college student found wedged in a two-foot space between his dorm and another building. asher vongtau's mother says he r son can't remember how he got stuck. they had to break through a brick wall to rescue the student. he suffered several broken bones. a law that would ban work place discrimination has cleared a major hurdle in the senate. seven republicans joined democrats in supporting the measure including illinois republican mark kirk. he defended the bill in what was his first address to the senate
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since suffering a stroke two years ago. >> i think it is appropriate for an illinois republican to speak on behalf of this measure in the true tradition of everett mckinley dirksen and abraham lincoln. >> the bill has little chance of clearing the house. a spokesman for john boehner said it would lead to frivolous litigation and cost jobs. in the meantime, it's legal to fire someone because they are gay in most states. all right. let's look at your weather. snow from the rockies moving to the twin cities and upper midwest by day's end. rain falling across the center of the country from texas to michigan. rain and snow showers in the pacific northwest and warm up in the east. >> denver will be 39 degrees. 70 in l.a. 51 seattle. 54 new york. atlanta coming in at 64 and nice 82 for miami. okay. here's something fascinating from japan. maybe the most important thing to know about it is that we have not sped up the tape, at all. we want you to check out some
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rock, paper, scissors action. >> obviously that's a robot taking on a human and winning at rock paper scissors every time. the robot uses high speed recognition predicting what the human will do. >> we're talking super duper fast. it takes just a thousandth of a second to recognize what shape the human hand is making and chooses the winning move virtually at the same time? that's the craziest, man. wow. >> when people say robots will not rule us in the future, i -- >> robot overlords. >> i don't know about that. >> i'm telling you what. there has to be a professional rock, paper, scissor person out there that can defeat this robot. we've got to find him and restore cred to the human race. >> there is a faster version of this unveiled in june. so that guy is a slow poke. >> all right. there you go. wow. all right. coming up, the late night talk show host getting laughs by making kids cry. and a 92-year-old man who risked his life to save a child.
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♪ you know, it's not every day we are given the opportunity to literally save a life.
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>> a 92-year-old man in los angeles not only had that opportunity, he's reliving the praise, reunited with the little girl he rescued from certain death. that's why it is our "favorite story of the day." here's abc's chris connelly. >> reporter: john sheer is 92 years old. he's worked at santa anita park for 51 years. just ten seconds mattered most. >> 911. what's your emergency? >> i shouted, "everybody, clear out of the way. there's a loose horse coming this way." when i looked down, a little girl was standing there. >> reporter: that little girl, 5-year-old roxy. look again. there's roxy on the left. and there's john throwing his body over her. absorbing the full impact of the runaway horse. >> i knew i was going to get hit. you cannot stop and think should i or shouldn't i. there's a 5-year-old girl. i'm 90 years old. she hasn't had a life. i have had a life.
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you have to save that life. >> what would have happened to your daughter if john sheer hadn't been there? >> dead, just dead. >> reporter: critically injured, john sheer would spend seven weeks in the hospital. more than two years after their lives first intersected, 92-year-old john sheer drove to a ballet studio where now 8-year-old roxy was to perform. >> thank you for dancing for me, roxanne. i love you. >> i don't want to say he lived 92 years to do just that one thing, but that's a very huge thing. >> of all the things you have done, john, where does this rank in terms of your life? >> reporter: sacrificing himself for a child he had never met before. >> reporter: chris connelly, abc news. >> kleenex alert. kleenex alert. >> several fractured bones in his body.
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you want to talk about him being watched over, as well, he was sitting up and smiling and laughing the very next day after this happened. >> i'm watching your eyes get teary. i knew it. >> is the third time i have watched the story. >> all of those mama hormones running through you. >> crazy. that was a great story. his son describes his dad as very fit. he does 35 pushups every day. he is 92 years old. >> that little girl roxy has her angel watching over her forever. >> no doubt about it. coming up, how cher lit up the stage on "dancing with the stars" while contestants got the boot. and justin bieber's scare on the concert stage. that's coming up next in "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our
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♪ skinny ♪ so skinny come i ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >> welcome in to the "the skinny," everybody. we start with "dancing with the stars." usually we tell you who was eliminated right off the bat. here we have a special demonstration for you as far as what happened on "dancing with the stars" last night and it was all about cher. she came out swinging. look at her. she changed into three different outfits. there she is performing "i hope you find." she was a guest judge where she sat down with the three judges and gave scores and talked about the things she saw and had all kinds of nice things to say about everybody. everyone had a cher-inspired dance they were performing.
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and then we found out who was eliminated. first of all, we figured that these were the two that were going, jack osbourne or brent daugherty. when it came down to it, it was brent that was sent home. >> i learned something i never thought i would be able to learn in my life. i learned a lot about myself and i'm grateful for the opportunity. >> as you see, he was teary eyed. >> he's a star on "pretty little liars." he's a career to go back to now that dancing is over with but he is out of the running for the mirror ball trophy. >> out of there. cher looks amazing. >> oh, my gosh, how old is she, my gosh, she's like four million. >> she look like a million bucks. >> i want to look like that when i'm 4 million. >> me too. jimmy kimmel's third year in a row. he has this -- love it or hate it. the parents send in video of them telling kids after halloween they ate all of their candy.
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the reactions are hilarious or horrifying. you be the judge. >> i'm so sorry. >> i hate you! >> i was just kidding. >> that's not very kind. >> we ate it. >> all gone! [ screaming ] candy! >> wow! >> third year in a row. >> oh, my goodness. it's the worst. >> it is. i can't imagine what i would have done at that age. i think i would have been speechless. i would have been, what, are you kidding me? there you go. so wrong it's right. >> so mean. it's so mean but it's so wonderful. talk about mean but wonderful, here's a little something for you. justin bieber got hit in the head with a bottle at a concert in brazil. >> you have a smile on your face. >> i'm not laughing because he got hit in the head. i'm laughing because he's totally fine and the fan loves him to death and that's why they wanted to do it to get his
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attention and it was really close and nothing is going to happen to him and he's like a twerp any way. it is not the first time it has happened. apparently when he was all bieberfied, back in 2009, he got hit. but that was a real hit. that is the young bieber who i liked that was nice. >> superstar angst right there. you are out there, everybody loves you and they are throwing things at you. >> he was sweet back then and i feel bad for that justin. >> yeah, what a transformation. look at that. >> i don't feel bad for the padded up, peeing in people's buckets, going to strip clubs. here you go. eminem, according to tmz say no, he was not lip syncing on "saturday night live." a lot of people thought he was lip syncing. turns out he had what they call a vocal track underneath his live vocals. so he was, in fact, rapping in to the mic. but there was a track underneath. according to tmz anyway. here you go.
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what do you think? is that cheating or not? >> it is a cheat sheet, right? >> i will go with that. is that cheating or not? >> it is a cheat sheet, right? >> i will go with that.
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♪ something about boots and boys ♪ they bring me so much joy ♪ for many girls, those are really the two favorite things, boots and boyce and this fall -- boots and boys, and this fall, something to fall in love with are those thigh-high boots. >> there is apparently a right way to wear it. abc's rachel smith on how to avoid becoming a fashion don't. ♪ >> reporter: aw, yes. those high-thigh boots. a trend that all of the hottest a-listers, even the first lady pulled off flawlessly and, well, tastefully. but let's be honest, when we think of sky high over-the-knee boots -- >> did you really say $100 an
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hour? >> reporter: only one image comes to mind. >> you know what's happened? i have a runner in my pantyhose. >> we love the movie "pretty woman." julia roberts is great in it but you don't want to walk outside looking like that. >> reporter: on a mission to find the dos and don'ts of the trend that everyone's knee-deep in, we hit bloomingdale's in new new york city with the "glamor" magazine's fashion editor. is it for my woman, high size, high height, any shape? >> yes, yes, yes. we are not excluding anyone. every girl needs a pair in her closet for fall. >> reporter: what are the don'ts that we should stay away from? >> don't go with a too, too short dress or skirt. this is a don't because it is too short and there is leather on top of leather on top of leather. >> reporter: but do pair them with a longer dress or skirt. >> just a sliver of skin. >> reporter: what are some dos?
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>> get away from the black once in a while and pick up another color. >> here's a do. >> i love it with jeans and sweater. this is perfect for brunch. >> my favorite take away do. >> i love an over-the-knee boot with dark jeans and a blazer. this is a "glamor" do to the 10th degree. >> reporter: so you can officially scratch this image from your mind and feel confident that you too can rock thigh highs and look like beyonce. well, almost. rachel s york. >> with rachel smith there are no don'ts. she can put on anything and it's a do. >> i'm so glad we did this ultra intensive look into what we are supposed to do with boots. >> tomorrow's installment is -- >> i feel journalistically complete. >> hey, you are rocking it. >> i know that dress is a little short. they sts acial
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good morning. i'm diana perez. >> i'm john muller. here's some of the top stories we are follow ing on "world news now." >> breaking news overnight. the search is on for a gunman after a shooting in the largest mall in new jersey. no one was injured. a man dressed in dark clothes, wearing a motorcycle helmet opened fire. more details in a moment. more details from one of the three cleveland area women tortured for a decade by ariel castro. michelle knight tells dr. phil that castro used extension cords to tie her up like a fish and hang her to the wall. sources saz -- sources say that dolphins' player richie incognito harassed martin with a string of racist voice mails and texts and threats to kill him. the bullying is being investigated by the team and the nfl. the dolphins have suspended incognito.
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last night on abc's "dancing with the stars," it was either going to be jack osbourne or brent daugherty going home. when the decision was made, brent daugherty and his partner were booted from the ballroom. six contestants remain. those are some of our top stories on this tuesday, november 5th. and good tuesday morning. we begin with breaking news. the search for a gunman at a large mall in northern new jersey. several shots rang out just before closing time near the nordstrom department store. >> the sound of gunfire sent customers and employees rushing for the exits and hiding in places. dozens of police cars rushing to the parking lot. >> the gunman didn't appear to be targeting shoppers, though. >> he was walking with a very big rifle and shooting in the air to the top. basically walked very calmly. >> we all ran in for our safety. from there on, we ran to the nearest exits.
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i mean, all we wanted to do is just get safe. >> no one hurt in the incident. the mall is closed as investigators continue combing the area for clues. the scariest part here is what he was wearing according to eyewitness. it was -- he was wearing all black and he had a bicycle -- a motorcycle helmet on. >> and fired in the air. >> first of all, it's a mall. lots of people there, before closing time. right before the holiday. we haven't spoken about that yet. >> this day and age, forget about it. the big mystery, of course, where is this guy? they are searching every inch of the mall. is he gone? will they never find him? is he in there somewhere? did he slip out with all of the people? a lot of investigation still to go. >> this will be a controlled search. it looks chaotic from the pictures but this is entirely controlled. they know where they have been. they know where they are going. they are locking down the areas they have already searched. even on the outside, where you
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see all of the police cars and looks like they are kind of scattered, they have asked people if you are coming to pick someone up, you go to a specific staging area and if you have been cleared you leave. >> needless to say the mall will be closed today. now the shooting at the los angeles airport. the justice department says security at l.a.x. and all airports across the nation must be reviewed. the shooterux -- the shooter, paul ciancia, remains in the hospital. one of his victims is speaking out. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: fighting the pain with visible effort, a survivor. >> good afternoon. my name is tony grigsby. i'm a behavior detection officer at tsa. >> reporter: friday during the panic at l.a.x., the gunman took aim at grigsby and two other tsa officers. officer gerardo hernandez was killed. >> only now has it hit me i will never see him again. he was a wonderful person and a friend, and i will miss him. >> reporter: grigsby is lucky to be alive.
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>> i was injured trying to help an elder man get to a safe area. i turned around and there was a gunman and shot me twice. >> reporter: authorities admitted the incident exposed a serious weakness in airport security. >> this is our worst nightmare. this scenario is the one that would keep me up at night. this is the one, but it is also the one we train to. are we perfect? no. will we review the circumstances that occurred here? absolutely. >> reporter: the fbi is now fairly convinced paul ciancia was targeting tsa officers. what they don't know is why. >> we have to get a full understanding of the person who we now have in custody to understand what his motives might have been. >> reporter: trouble is, they can't even ask him. ciancia is still unconscious at ucla medical center with a gunshot wound to the head. the tsa has a thankless job, enforcing procedures we all tolerate through gritted teeth. >> i'm just a regular person.
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i'm not here for no fame or no glory. i came to tsa to protect people. >> reporter: a powerful statement. the u.s. attorney general, eric holder, said no feelings about the government could possibly justify the actions of the gunman on friday. david wright, abc news, l.a.x. president obama is activating his old political network for the troubled obama care rollout at an obama for america rally last night. he asked supporters to keep faith with the program and sign up. but internal white house memos reveal that the president only told part of the story when he said that shoppers could bypass the website and apply by phone instead. >> these memos say that at the end of the day, we are all stuck in the same queue because we have to go through the same portal. >> i get it but the person who calls isn't the one that continues to wait after the paper application is filled. >> your mocking is entertaining, but the president said you can apply within 25 minutes.
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that was not true. >> the work you do -- i think everyone else is looking quizzically because there's a reason to be quizzical here. you call up and get the questions you need answers and they take over from there. >> the administration says it will not be able to release figures on how many people have enrolled online or by phone at least another two weeks. today is election day. americans heading to the polls coast to coast with mayoral races in new york and boston and heated governor contest in virginia and new jersey. >> reporter: the race for governor in new jersey is already considered a slam dunk for chris christie. he's rumored to be thinking ahead to a run for the white house. >> i have to govern the state. whatever the future brings it will bring but first things first. >> reporter: christie has been riding high on the superstorm sandy rebuilding effort which his opponent is using against him. >> we rebuild our storm-ravaged communities but that is not the only rebuilding that needs to to be done. there's another new jersey.
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that's been slowly eroded by wrong priorities, poor policy choices and inexcusable neglect. >> reporter: in new jersey, terry mcauliffe is favored against ken cuccinelli. >> he almost derailed the virginia budget when he was trying to defund planned parenthood. he's the only one on stage that has actually tried to shut down the government. >> government is not a good entry-level job but that is what it would be for terry. >> reporter: in the big city mayoral races, bill de blasio is expected to win over joe lodha. his biracial family has been featured in campaign ads. in boston, state representative marty walsh, a union leader and the son of irish immigrants, faces off against john connelly. and democrat or republican, whoever wins in detroit will have little immediate power as the debt-ridden city is guided through the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history.
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after legalizing recreational marijuana use last year, colorado voters will decide whether to tax it with 15% excise tax in addition to a an extra 10% sales tax. and a bit of a bombshell, a democratic congressman running for governor of mountain mountain next year anyway has come out of the closet announcing he is gay. he said he is coming clean now so the race focuses on the issues and not hi personal life. now the red sox are done celebrating their world series victory, this seemed inevitable. it took place yesterday at gillette headquarters. shane victorino and david ortiz having their beards shaved. the beards were a unifying force for the team on their way to the title. the shave was worth $10,000 for boston's one fund, a charity working with boston marathon victims and their families. >> this is incredible to help our survivors heal and our whole community. >> tragedy that we face in the city. it brought us closer together to be one team. it is a story book ending to what happened. >> that's $100,000 by the way
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that the shave will be worth for that charity. victorino said he looks like he is 12 years old without his beard. also getting shaved is a boston police officer. he was photographed you may remember with his arms raised in the sox' bullpen celebrating a home run during the alcs. >> great picture. >> yes, it was. those guys can walk around the city and won't get mobbed. people won't know who they are anymore. >> i this have a feeling that it will happen. >> boston fans know who they are. here's a look at your weather. cold air from canada feeding a band of snow from the rockies to northern michigan. below that, soaking rain for the central 1/3 of the country in the ohio valley. 49 boston. 58 washington, d.c. 70 memphis. new orleans will come in at 72. chicago 58. 56 albuquerque and 75 in phoenix. it wasn't the usual fairy -- ferry trip for passengers on a boat in british columbia last week. this is what they saw in the water. >> take a look.
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that is a huge pod of pacific white-sided dolphins. they think there were about a thousand of them swimming together. the species is known for forming large pods. >> scientists say it is unusual to do it in a smaller body of water like this was. they say it usually happens in bigger, more open waters. it doesn't matter. it is beautiful. and a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the people on that boat. >> pretty amazing, right? quite a sight to see. >> i'm sure this was the kind of ferry that takes you from island to island and they didn't have their cameras ready. i'm sure it wasn't sightseeing. >> that's why you have the telephone -- >> that's why you have your smartphone, yes. coming up, going to work with some legendary superheroes. >> we will take you behind the hit show "agents of s.h.i.e.l.d." it's an action-adventure full of comic book heros keeping fans glued to the screen. and getting laughs by making kids cry. the late-night talk show candy prank that is a sensation year after year. you are watching "world news now." ♪ i'll have candy all the time
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they say she pushed her new husband, cody johnson, face first over a cliff eight days after their first dance to this song. ♪ everyone wants a safe place >> reporter: now newly released court documents show one of graham's friends told investigators the young bride said she wanted the body found and the cops out of it. >> in her mind, she's believing if she can get the police out of the case -- in other words, the body is in other words the body is found, determined an accident. case is closed. she's home free. >> reporter: prosecutors say that graham admitted to pushing him because she regretted marrying a man she didn't love. but they say her confession came after she concocted lie after lie to cover her tracks. >> reporter: investigators say she first told them her husband disappeared after going on a joyride with friends. these new documents include an e-mail addressed to the bride from the someone named tony, sent three days after cody
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johnson vanished. cody got out of the car and went for a little hike. they are positive he fell and he's dead, jordan. i don't know who he guys were but they took off. so call off the missing person report. cody is gone for sure. >> reporter: investigators say the e-mail was part of her fraud. sent to herself from a computer registered to her father. now out on bail, jordan graham pleaded not guilty. next month the jury is set to decide if graham is a grieving widow who lied out of fear or a calculating killer whose lies finally caught up to her. ryan owens, abc news, dallas. >> unbelievable, right? >> wow. >> called get a divorce. get a divorce. >> it's just so easy to get a divorce and, by the way, this is according to police -- this is one of their working theories. they say she got upset with her now-dead husband because he was asking for an annulment. that's like an easy ticket out.
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>> they say she wanted out, as well. >> here's another thing. when you hear he was pushed face first, that doesn't mean they were in the middle of a struggle and she let go and there he went. she came from behind and pushed him. >> allegedly. >> rough. >> we'll be right back. >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. ck. him. >> allegedly. >> rough. >> we'll be right back. >> announcer: "world
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♪ to the delight of fans everywhere, superheroes are jumping in the large screen to the small screen. behind the scenes nick watt has gotten a bird's eye view in this "up all nightline" report. >> reporter: marvel are the
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masters of the superhero spectacular. second installment of "thor" hit theaters this weekend. >> anyone else? >> reporter: the galaxy's mightiest and snarkiest superheroes and a 50-year history of comic book gold. marvel is moving in to a new frontier, television, with a new show called "agent of s.h.i.e.l.d." superhero fans no longer need wait for the two or three movies released every year, these guys are cranking out a miniature movie every eight days shooting around the world and on their extravagant airbus, command center, bunk house, forensics lab and exotic cars. >> garage. >> don't touch lola. >> this is new. please don't. >> it's okay. you can. >> reporter: they're trying to appeal to comic book people. >> i'm one of them. i want them to enjoy this.
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i want me to enjoy it. >> reporter: i feel that you're a beacon to all men in their 40s who want to be fabulous. >> i feel, yes. i feel you seem like a potential s.h.i.e.l.d. agent if one isn't secretly already. what do you think, cool? >> make me feel like i could really be an agent. >> i'm weapons trained. >> you can field strip it? >> no. we want to be able to have mom, dad, senior, sis, all be able to sit and go that's my favorite character. >> and you made the geeks british so you can laugh at british people. >> they are the smartest ones on the plane. >> ian comes from the same part of scotland as me. he's my people. when it comes to beautiful women like ming-na wen, i can't keep "agent of s.h.i.e.l.d." kind of cool.
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you get to wear the coolest outfit. >> i do and it's the most comfortable. >> reporter: on the show she's a bad ass fox dressed in leather. >> you play this very scary -- >> she's not scary. she's just misunderstood. >> really? >> i think so. >> even if you are the most manly man, the most alpha male and you don't get a little moist around your eyes, you have to have yourself checked. >> any idea what could cause an effect like this? >> can you go over what happened in episode six. can you go over what happened again for us? >> he did not. you think that is going to work? he didn't tell you a single thing. >> agent nick. >> reporter: i'm nick watt on level seven. >> by the way, marvel produces "agents of s.h.i.e.l.d." and they are owned by our parent company disney. >> they are owned by disney our parent company. >> look like twins separated at birth. >> 13 episodes of "the agents of s.h.i.e.l.d." we look good. >> i saw the first episode and i am convinced i was watching a movie. so watch it. it was that good. we make a really good looking
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"agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.," by the way. >> no nonsense. >> very nice. >> no nonsense. >> very nice. agents of shield, by the way. >> no nonsense. >> very nice.
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breaking news this morning on "world news now." gunfire inside new jersey's largest mall. survivors story. a tsa agent who survived the shooting rampage at the los angeles airport talks about his painful and frightening ordeal. >> i turned around and there was a gunman and shot me twice. >> this as investigators search for answers and a motive. then, for sale. young, attractive women earning thousands for donating their eggs. >> the egg donors are not considered patients, they're considered more like vendors. >> large sums of money involved
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and questions about medical safety. it is tuesday, november 5th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >> good tuesday morning. we begin with the latest details on the news from new jersey. the shooting happened at the state's largest mall, garden state mall in paramus. >> shots rang out near the nordstrom department store. gio benitez is there. good morning. >> reporter: hey, there, john and diana. as you can see, police officers are trying to figure out exactly what happened here. the good news, no injuries reported to far. of what we know right now is that somewhere around 9:30, people heard gunshots. there was real chaos here. it turns out that police have been able to confirm that there was only a single gunshot that ever went off here. there was a shell casing they found. a witness tells us they were able to see this gunman wearing an all black biker helmet and pointing this long gun around but not shooting anyone. so that's the really interesting
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part here. listen to what other witnesses had to say here. >> all you could see was the man walking toward nordstrom. you heard -- it sounded like a firecracker. >> all of a sudden we heard a pop, a really loud pop. >> he had a biker helmet, mask, you couldn't see his face or who the guy was. >> he was walking in front of the apple store wearing black. wasn't shooting at people. he was shooting up to the top part of the cameras of the mall. >> again, no injuries reported. that's the good news. of course, still a fluid situation. but as far as we can tell, this is over here. so, lots to figure out, though. still a lot of questions. and of course where is that gunman? did he leave the mall? is he still somewhere inside? we just don't know that for sure just yet.
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john, diana. >> incredible. >> thank you. >> incredible that we're doing a story on this which could have been horrific and nobody is injured. the big question is where is the gunman. >> where is he at this point? to give you a little perspective here, this mall is enormous. there's 2 million square feet of mall here. so when you look at these pictures and see the enormous amount of police activity there, you can only imagine trying to get a handle on something like this happening in an area that is so big, with so many people. the stores were still open. right before the closing time some people were about to leave and some were still shopping. once again, a large area and enormous operation trying to get under control. >> we believe people are still inside and are being escorted in and out by police. police want to make sure they know exactly who is going in and out them mall will be closed all day today as the investigation continues. >> we will of course bring you the latest as it comes to us. now to this. that aftermath of another high-profile shooting. relatives of this the man
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charged in the airport attack say they are shocked and numb. a lawyer for the suspect's family said his relatives regret the harm and disruption caused by the shooting, and we're hearing for the first time from one of the survivors. here's brandi hitt. >> reporter: tsa officer tony grigsby described coming face to face with paul ciancia. >> i was injured trying to help an older man get to a safe area. i turned around and there was a gunman and shot me twice. >> reporter: with a smith & wesson assault rifle, investigators say the 23-year-old wounded two others and killed officer gerardo hernandez at point-blank range. >> this scenario would keep me up at night but the one we train to. >> reporter: airport police shot ciancia four times and later discovered a handwritten note describing how he wanted "to instill fear on your traitorous minds." >> paul is our son and brother. we will continue to love him and care for him. >> reporter: detectives have
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combed through paul ciancia's southern california apartment and other residences trying to determine what set him off. classmates describe him as a loaner, but a former roommate says he was a nice guy. >> going back to jersey, work for his dad and make amends with family problems. >> reporter: now attorney general eric holder believes federal officials may have to rethink security measures at airports nationwide. >> the responsibility for protecting airport security is not a tsa function but something we need to examine given what happened in los angeles. >> reporter: investigators found five full magazines of ammunition at the crime scene. the alleged gunman is now unresponsive at a nearby hospital. if he does regain consciousness, he could face the death penalty. brandi hitt, abc news, los angeles. >> thank you. a lockdown at a connecticut college was apparently the result of big misunderstanding. a gunman spotted at the central connecticut university.
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it turned out to be a student wearing his ninja halloween costume after a weekend of partying at another school. his dad, who happens to be a professor at that college, said his son never had a real gun. it included a mask, camouflage pants and a fake gun. he will be charged with breach of peace, and he will be released on bail. president obama is turning to his supporters for help with obama care. at a rally last night, he asked them to help get people enrolled and he modified his earlier promise saying that people won't have to give up insurance they like unless those policies change because of the reform law. abc's jonathan karl has more questions about the president's promises. >> reporter: as the health care website melted down, the president told people there were other options working just fine. >> you can bypass the website and apply by phone or in person. >> reporter: a quick call. >> i want to repeat that. >> 800-318-2596. >> reporter: and voila. >> it usually takes about 25 minutes for an individual to apply for coverage.
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>> reporter: but ten days before the president said those words, his own health care team knew all applications were having the same problems. as one internal memo from the administration's health care war room obtained by abc news reads, "the same port al is used to determine eligibility no matter how the application is submitted. at the end of the day we are all stuck in the same queue." did the president not know that everything needs to go through the same broken website? >> these memos say we are stuck in the same queue because we have to go through the same portal. >> john, i get it, but the person who calls isn't the one that waits after the paper application is filled. >> your mocking is entertaining, but the president said you can apply in 25 minutes. that's not true. >> you call up, give your information. get questions answered that you need answered. then they take over from there. >> reporter: that's not how it worked for this georgia resident. we visited the day the president gave out the phone number. after failing online, he tried the hotline.
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>> i really have no idea whether i will be offered a better plan. whether or not the government will help me subsidize it. >> we contacted him again on monday, and after two weeks and several calls to the that hotline, he still has not been able to enroll in a new health care plan. as for the overall numbers, the white house still won't tell us how many people have enrolled online or enrolled over the phone. those numbers, they tell us, will come in about two weeks. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. couple of stories from the nfl that have nothing to do with football. we begin with the bullying scandal engulfing the dolphins right now. sources say the whole situation blew up after offensive lineman richie incognito sent text messages that were racist and threatening to teammate martin. that brought about his suspension.
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there is a wide ranging investigation by the league. >> the nfl will conduct a review of the workplace, and we are going to give as an organization our full and complete cooperation with the nfl. >> they said if the league's review shows the dolphins' locker room is not a safe atmosphere, he will do whatever it takes to make it one. johnthan martin is said to be with his family in los angeles for counseling. meanwhile, houston texans' coach, gary kubiak, remains in the hospital undergoing tests with his family by his side. he collapsed at halftime of his team gate against the colts. texas management says he is alert and coherent and in good spirits and could be released as early as today. after all of that, there was a monday night football game last night. >> packers hosting the bears last night. game turned on early when aaron rodgers was sacked and injured his shoulder. >> bears quarterback threw a couple of touchdown passes the rest of the way, and that was
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enough for chicago to run out the winners. the bears beat their division rivals 27-20. >> bears, bears. >> the bears. >> incredible rivalry there. >> this is one to keep your eyes on. >> when rogers goes down, that is not a fair fight anymore. >> no. coming up, the special ingredient in some ultra expensive ice cream that makes it glow in the dark. >> disgusting. and the young, attractive women making money by selling their eggs. concern for the donor's safety, though. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by consumer cellular. ♪ i've got my brains consumer cellular. . you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by consumer cellular.
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♪ i've got my brains ♪ you've got the looks ♪ let's make lots of money ♪ you have got the brawn ♪ i've got lots of brains ♪ a growing number of young women have found a way to make lots of money by donating their eggs. >> hundreds of thousands of women since the mid '80s have donated their eggs to give the gift of birth to childless couples, but at what cost to their own health? here's abc's cynthia mcfadden. >> reporter: we know how valuable healthy donor eggs can be. $5,000.
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$10,000 if you are asian says this ad. guess what, if you're a model with all that implies, $50,000. >> does it make you nervous? >> i think by this point it is my sixth time. i don't get nervous anymore. >> reporter: anna cane is a freelance writer who said she made $60,000 as a donor. >> reporter: so as far as you're concerned, there's no reason not to do this. >> no. >> good. you are ready? >> yes. >> reporter: today is egg-retrieval day. the culmination of weeks of hormone injections to stimulate her ovaries to produce more eggs than normal. dr. joel batfin is her doctor. is egg donation essentially risk-free as far as you're concerned? >> nothing is risk free. there is anesthesia and procedure but the right answer is yes, it is risk-free. >> reporter: there is a rare condition found in less than 1%
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of patients ovarian hype -- hypertension syndrome. emma smith, not his patient, was so sick with it she spent six days in the hospital and shot this video diary. >> i feel that they should have gone out of their way to make me a bit more aware of any possible side effects in the actual process and everything like that. >> reporter: dr. jennifer schneider worries there is no national egg donor registry to track what happens to this exploding group of young women donating their eggs. her daughter was a three-time egg donor who died at 31 of colon cancer. >> the egg donors are not considered patients. they are considered more like vendors. >> reporter: she wonders if the repeated hormone injections fuel cancer in some way even though studies suggest there is no proof that infertility treatments cause cancer. we were shocked to discover there has never been, not even one, long-term study of egg donors. >> it doesn't worry you that there haven't been good studies
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done of egg donors? not really. >> reporter: anna said she is thrilled she has helped to create three sets of twins and hopes there will be more. what we can say for certain right now is that there are no known long-term effects from egg donation, but that is a world of difference from being able to say no effects from egg donations. cynthia mcfadden, abc news, new york. >> fascinating stuff. >> the kind of thing you never really think about. these women really are giving the gift of a child to women that can't do it on their own and they have their own effects, obviously. but it is interesting they are viewed as vendors. essentially what they are. they are selling something from their body, but nobody is worried about what is happening to them. >> the first pregnancy from a donated egg in 1983 and since then there are a few hundred thousand of these. it is happening every day. >> every day and women that are healthy going to these things and some things are happening
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that are raising some flags. >> time for a study, right? >> yeah. never too late to try something new. meet a man who is flying high on his 100th birthday. i got to see this. and ahead in our next half-hour, the rate way and the wrong way to wear the thigh high boots. they're becoming all the rage from hollywood to the white house. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. nouncer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations.
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babies aren't fully developed until at least 39 weeks. a healthy baby is worth the wait. ♪ jump for my love >> very few of us are brave enough to take that big jump out of a plane. it could take years or even decades to muster up the courage. >> or maybe never. but one man in paris, california, took an entire century, but better late than never, right? kabc's rob mcmillan has more.
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>> reporter: for palm deserted resident vern maynard, it is a big day. >> you are on camera. >> reporter: yes, it is his 100th birthday, but that is not why we were out here. you see, he's about to do something he's been dreaming of for years. vern maynard is going sky diving. are you nervous? >> no. no, i'm not nervous. why should i be nervous? >> reporter: why would he be? it's not like this is his first jump, is it? how many times have you done this before? >> never before. >> reporter: your first time today? >> right, uh-huh. >> can we have you sit down here, vern? >> you are set and ready to go. >> reporter: after waiting for the cloud cover to go away, it was go time. here at sky dive paris, although they have never taken a 100-year-old up before they say it is a good example of how
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these days almost anyone can skydive. >> there are exceptions, but the sport has gotten to a place now with the way the equipment and training is that anybody who really wants to do this is capable of doing it. >> what did you think? >> i say let's do it again. my golly. that's wonderful. >> reporter: so vern maynard obviously isn't afraid of trying new things. this is a guy who's parasailed, jumped off of the back deck of a cruise ship and jumped out of a plane on his 100th birthday. what's next? >> i think i have to do it again. >> reporter: for your 101st birthday? >> yeah, right. my 120th maybe. >> reporter: this is rob mcmillan for abc news. >> good and he will do it again but will wait another 20 years before he jumps out of a plane. i don't blame him. >> when you are that age not a lot can get a rise out of you. did you see the smile on his
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face after it was over? almost as much as you, and you are only 90. not even a hundred yet. >> thank you, john. that was great. almost as much as you, and you are knot only 90. not even a hundred yet. >> thank you, john. that was great.
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time for "the time for "the mix." if you time for "the mix" if you have a phobia of spiders, arachnephobia, you may want to hit the mute button. a woman in britain, lives in london. she buys a bag of bananas. she is noticing there's a bunch of white spots on it and wonders what is up with that. sees hundreds of spiders hatching as she eats the banana and the big guys are still in the bag. these are not regular spiders. they are brazilian wandering spiders, aka banana spiders. highly aggressive, venomous spiders, and certified as the most toxic by the "guinness book of world records." taylor attempted to return them to the market. i think i would have doused them with lighter fluid and set them
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on fire but she's okay. and wow. if it was regular house spiders that would be freaky enough, but that's the kind of thing you go to the psych ward and don't come out. >> the white spots got me. >> those were the babies. and there's mama. >> the eggs hatching. immediately think what would i do in that situation? and i can see myself trying to flush it down the toilet. because in that moment -- [ flushing sounds ] >> and shriek like a little girl. >> i guess you would shriek like a little girl but that is easier. >> hopefully moving on to something tastier than spiders on your bananas. check out glow in the dark ice cream. it is pretty cool. there is the creator. it is a british guy that has a place called lick me i'm delicious. he specializes in exotic ice
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cream flavors. this glow in the dark ice cream is made with jellyfish proteins -- the same thing that allows a marine organism to produce the light in their body. not to worry i have been eating it a while and i'm not glowing anywhere. it will cost $220 a scoop. >> 220 a scoop. stick with baskin robbins. [ belch ] >> i will do vanilla. >> as we said it starts out glow in the dark, does it come out glow in the dark? >> i don't know. he says he's not going anywhere. i have a feeling he's trying to -- >> let's get scientific are we alone in the universe? statistically, it seems impossible that we would be. a study from the kepler telescope found 40 billion stars alone in our galaxy. there are billions of galaxy. our galaxy alone has 40 billion. 8.8 billion of those stars have the goldilocks effect that means they are just right. not too far or too close to the sun and it is an earth-sized star. there are 8.8 billion earth-like planets revolving around the sun in our galaxy alone. >> and you don't believe in aliens. >> you have to think at least something. breaking news this morning
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breaking news this morning on "world news now," the intense investigation inside of new jersey's largest mall. shoppers running for cover after they hear gunshots. the latest overnight. torture victim. one of the captives held in cleveland for years opens up and describes her ordeal. the heartbreaking account from michelle knight. professional bullying. the scandal surrounding a 320-pound player from the miami dolphins, the words exchange and the nfl's investigation. ♪ later, the sounds of cher that delighted fans and contestants on "dancing with the stars." and the dancers booted from the stage. it is coming up in "the skinny" on this tuesday, november 5th.
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>> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >> good tuesday morning, folks. we will begin with breaking news from new jersey where a major search is now underway for a gunman who opened fire at a shopping mall. >> police believe the suspect is still inside the garden state plaza likely near the nordstrom store. many shoppers and store employees are holed up in the store waiting for the all-clear from police. >> this woman was shopping for vitamins when she heard the first shots. >> i ran into the storage room, i locked the door. there was two other people, and basically we called 911. we let them know we were inside the storage room. they said they know about the gunman, and he's still on the loose, and police is on their way. >> an eyewitness said the gunman appeared to be wearing body armor and a helmet with a visor pulled up. another said that
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the gunman was shooting at security cameras and not people. >> police response was massive. this is a sign of the times. amazing we have a shooting at a mall and nobody is injured. >> that's right. they were there instantaneously. police, s.w.a.t. team, the whole deal. there much eyewitnesses. a rough count said it seemed like 2,000 police cars in the parking lot. this is an enormous mall. it needs a lot of activity and needs a response this big, but the biggest problem is nobody knows where this guy is. >> could he be inside, has he already gone? police are actually escorting people in and out of the mall. they want to make sure they know exactly who goes in and out. the mall will be closed today, by the way. >> there is a little progress as far as what police are doing and what they are allowing to happen. initially there was a statement that came out that said police don't want anyone coming from the public to pick up family members. you guys stay away, we'll
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eventually get your family members to you. now they are saying you can come to a staging area, but that's because they want to clear everybody coming in, look at them and clear them before they leave. >> nordstrom tweeting all of the people in their store have been cleared. >> that's right. moving on. no charges expected to be filed after a bystander shot dead two men at a convenience store. in reading, the armed bystander approached them. >> it was a confrontation each robber shot once in the chest. the district attorney says the shooter was well within his rights to fire when his life was threatened. a connecticut college student released on bail after inadvertently triggering a three-hour campus lockdown. police descended on the central connecticut state university when the 21-year-old senior who was returning to a dorm wearing his ninja halloween costume which included a mask, plastic sword an fake gun. david kyem said he spent the weekend off campus and wore the costume back because the pieces wouldn't fit in his backpack. he's been charged with breach of peace. a tsa officer who survived the shooting at los angeles international airport is telling his story. using a cane as a result of his injuries,
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tony grigsby spoke outside of his l.a. home. first, he mourned the loss of his friend gerardo hernandez, who is the officer died, and then described coming face to face with the shooter. >> i was injured trying to help an elder man get to a safe area. i turned around and there was a gunman and shot me twice. >> the other wounded tsa officer has been released from the hospital. the condition of the high school teacher, brian ludmer, who was shot in the calf has been upgraded from fair to good. one of the women held captive in the house of horrors in cleveland sharing more shocking details of the torture she suffered more than a decade. michelle knight sat down with dr. phil for an interview telling him how castro taped her mouth shut with duct tape and kept her chained to a pole in the basement and how he tied her to the wall with an extension cord. >> i was tied up like a fish, an ornament on the wall.
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i was hanging like this. my feet -- and i was tied by my neck and arms. >> reporter: knight has been the most focal of the three women rescued from the home. amanda berry and gina dejesus are writing about their ordeal but knight has declined to take part. details about the bullying scandal swirling around the miami dolphins right now. the team and leak are looking in to allegations that go beyond the usual locker room pranks that have been associated with teammates for quite a long time. abc's matt gutman reports from south florida. >> reporter: they are the biggest of men whose job it is to play rough and 6'3", 320 pound richey incognito of the dolphins is one of the biggest and baddest out there. he calls himself "the beast" on twitter. once voted the dirtiest player in the league. the dolphins suspended him amid accusations that off the field he's actually a vicious bully. >> the nfl is going to conduct a review of the workplace, and we are going to give, as an organization, our full and complete cooperation with the nfl.
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>> reporter: incognito's alleged target -- his 300-pound teammate, second-year player, jonathan martin, seen on the hbo series "hard knocks." >> big weirdo. >> what's that mean. >> reporter: nfl and team officials are investigating whether incognito so forced martin it forced him to leave the team. a hint of the hazing caught on hbo's "hard knocks." incognito bragging about hacking a junior's ipad. >> you may want to check your facebook. >> what's it say? >> i [ bleep ] i was going to put up something rude but i saw a picture of your girlfriend and felt bad. >> reporter: martin's treatment may have been more vicious. our partners at espn report incognito harassed him with a string of racist voice mails and texts, calling him the "n" word saying he would kill him. martin reached his breaking point last week when teammates refused to sit with him in the cafeteria.
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he stormed out, and his team says he is now reportedly in treatment. >> makes you wonder how many times guys in the league have been treated like this or similar and not said anything. >> reporter: richie incognito is fighting back, calling the accusations false and tweeting, "i want my name cleared." coaches say hazing is one thing but using racial slurs crosses the line. an analyst we spoke with said if martin comes back to the nfl he won't be met with jeers but possibly with sympathy for speaking out. matt gutman, abc news, davy, florida. an update on the new york college student found wedged in a two-foot space between his dorm and another building. asher vongtau's mother says her son can't remember how he got stuck. they had to break through a brick wall to rescue the student. he suffered several broken bones. a law that would ban work place discrimination has cleared a major hurdle in the senate. seven republicans joined democrats in supporting the measure including illinois
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republican mark kirk. he defended the bill in what was his first address to the senate since suffering a stroke two years ago. >> i think it is appropriate for an illinois republican to speak on behalf of this measure in the true tradition of everett mckinley dirksen and abraham lincoln. >> the bill has little chance of clearing the house. a spokesman for john boehner said it would lead to frivolous litigation and cost jobs. in the meantime, it's legal to fire someone because they are gay in most states. all right. let's look at your weather. snow from the rockies moving to the twin cities and upper midwest by day's end. rain falling across the center of the country from texas to michigan. rain and snow showers in the pacific northwest and warm up in the east. >> denver will be 39 degrees. 70 in l.a. 51 seattle. 54 new york. atlanta coming in at 64 and nice 82 for miami. okay. here's something fascinating from japan. maybe the most important thing to know about it is that we have not sped up the tape, at all. we want you to check out some
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rock, paper, scissors action. >> obviously that's a robot taking on a human and winning at rock paper scissors every time. the robot uses high speed recognition predicting what the human will do. >> we're talking super duper fast. it takes just a thousandth of a second to recognize what shape the human hand is making and chooses the winning move virtually at the same time? that's the craziest, man. wow. >> when people say robots will not rule us in the future, i -- >> robot overlords. >> i don't know about that. >> i'm telling you what. there has to be a professional rock, paper, scissor person out there that can defeat this robot. we've got to find him and restore cred to the human race. >> there is a faster version of this unveiled in june. so that guy is a slow poke. >> all right. there you go. wow. all right. coming up, the late night
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talk show host getting laughs by making kids cry. and a 92-year-old man who risked his life to save a child. he was in harm's way at the race track. and the answer to the question, would he do it again? you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by woolite every day. >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by woolite every day. woolite detergents clean your save jeans and won't torture your tanks. so clothes look like new even after 20 washes.
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♪ you know, it's not every day we are given the opportunity to literally save a life.
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>> a 92-year-old man in los angeles not only had that opportunity, he's reliving the praise, reunited with the little girl he rescued from certain death. that's why it is our "favorite story of the day." here's abc's chris connelly. >> reporter: john sheer is 92 years old. he's worked at santa anita park for 51 years. just ten seconds mattered most. >> 911. what's your emergency? >> i shouted, "everybody, clear out of the way. there's a loose horse coming this way." when i looked down, a little girl was standing there. >> reporter: that little girl, 5-year-old roxy. look again. there's roxy on the left. and there's john throwing his body over her. absorbing the full impact of the runaway horse. >> i knew i was going to get hit. you cannot stop and think should i or shouldn't i. there's a 5-year-old girl. i'm 90 years old. she hasn't had a life. i have had a life.
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you have to save that life. >> what would have happened to your daughter if john sheer hadn't been there? >> dead, just dead. >> reporter: critically injured, john sheer would spend seven weeks in the hospital. more than two years after their lives first intersected, 92-year-old john sheer drove to a ballet studio where now 8-year-old roxy was to perform. >> thank you for dancing for me, roxanne. i love you. >> i don't want to say he lived 92 years to do just that one thing, but that's a very huge thing. >> of all the things you have done, john, where does this rank in terms of your life? >> it ranks number one. >> reporter: sacrificing himself for a child he had never met before. >> reporter: chris connelly, abc news. >> kleenex alert. you know kleenex alert. >> several fractured bones in his body.
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you want to talk about him being watched over, as well, he was sitting up and smiling and laughing the very next day after this happened. >> i'm watching your eyes get teary. i knew it. >> is the third time i have watched the story. >> all of those mama hormones running through you. >> crazy. that was a great story. his son describes his dad as very fit. he does 35 pushups every day. he is 92 years old. >> that little girl roxy has her angel watching over her forever. >> no doubt about it. coming up, how cher lit up the stage on "dancing with the stars" while contestants got the boot. and justin bieber's scare on the concert stage. that's coming up next in "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. stants got the boot. and justin bieber's scare on the concert stage. that's coming up next in "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now" continues afte
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♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >> welcome in to the "the skinny," everybody. we start with "dancing with the stars." usually we tell you who was eliminated right off the bat. here we have a special demonstration for you as far as what happened on "dancing with the stars" last night and it was all about cher. she came out swinging. look at her. she changed into three different outfits. there she is performing "i hope you find." she was a guest judge where she sat down with the three judges and gave scores and talked about the things she saw and had all kinds of nice things to say about everybody. everyone had a cher-inspired
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dance they were performing. and then we found out who was eliminated. first of all, we figured that these were the two that were going, jack osbourne or brent daugherty. when it came down to it, it was brent that was sent home. >> i learned something i never thought i would be able to learn in my life. i learned a lot about myself and i'm grateful for the opportunity. >> as you see, he was teary eyed. >> he's a star on "pretty little liars." he's a career to go back to now that dancing is over with but he is out of the running for the mirror ball trophy. >> out of there. cher looks amazing. >> oh, my gosh, how old is she, my gosh, she's like 4 million. >> she look like a million bucks. >> i want to look like that when i'm 4 million. >> me too. jimmy kimmel's third year in a row. he has this -- love it or hate it. the parents send in video of them telling kids after halloween they ate all of their candy. the reactions are hilarious or horrifying. you be the judge.
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check it out. >> i'm so sorry. >> i hate you! [ laughter ] >> i was just kidding. >> that's not very kind. >> we ate it. >> all gone! [ screaming ] candy! >> wow! >> third year in a row. >> oh, my goodness. it's the worst. >> it is. i can't imagine what i would have done at that age. i think i would have been speechless. i would have been, what, are you kidding me? there you go. so wrong it's right. >> so mean. it's so mean but it's so wonderful. talk about mean but wonderful, here's a little something for you. justin bieber got hit in the head with a bottle at a concert in brazil. >> you have a smile on your face. >> i'm not laughing because he got hit in the head. i'm laughing because he's totally fine and the fan loves him to death and that's why they wanted to do it to get his
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attention and it was really close and nothing is going to happen to him and he's like a twerp any way. it is not the first time it has happened. apparently when he was all bieberfied, back in 2009, he got hit. but that was a real hit. that is the young bieber who i liked that was nice. >> superstar angst right there. you are out there, everybody loves you and they are throwing things at you. >> he was sweet back then and i feel bad for that justin. >> yeah, what a transformation. look at that. >> i don't feel bad for the padded up, peeing in people's buckets, going to strip clubs. here you go. eminem, according to tmz say no, he was not lip syncing on "saturday night live." a lot of people thought he was lip syncing. turns out he had what they call a vocal track underneath his live vocals. so he was, in fact, rapping in to the mic. but there was a track underneath. according to tmz anyway. here you go. what do you think? is that cheating or not?
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>> it is a cheat sheet, right? >> i will go with that. ♪ something about boots and boys ♪ ght? >> i will go with that.
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boys ♪ they bring me so much joy ♪ for many girls, those are really the two favorite things, boots and boys, and this fall, something to fall in love with are those thigh-high boots. >> there is apparently a right way to wear it. abc's rachel smith on how to avoid becoming a fashion don't. ♪ >> reporter: aw, yes. those high-thigh boots. a trend that all of the hottest a-listers, even the first lady pulled off flawlessly and, well, tastefully. but let's be honest, when we think of sky high over-the-knee boots -- >> did you really say $100 an hour? >> reporter: only one image comes to mind.
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>> you know what's happened? i have a runner in my pantyhose. >> we love the movie "pretty woman." julia roberts is great in it but you don't want to walk outside looking like that. >> reporter: on a mission to find the dos and don'ts of the trend that everyone's knee-deep in, we hit bloomingdale's in new new york city with the "glamor" magazine's fashion editor. is it for my woman, high size, high height, any shape? >> yes, yes, yes. we are not excluding anyone. every girl needs a pair in her closet for fall. >> reporter: what are the don'ts that we should stay away from? >> don't go with a too, too short dress or skirt. this is a don't because it is too short and there is leather on top of leather on top of leather.
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>> reporter: but do pair them with a longer dress or skirt. >> just a sliver of skin. >> reporter: what are some dos? >> get away from the black once in a while and pick up another color. >> here's a do. >> i love it with jeans and sweater. this is perfect for brunch. >> my favorite take away do. >> i love an over-the-knee boot with dark jeans and a blazer. this is a "glamour" do to the 10th degree. >> reporter: so you can officially scratch this image from your mind and feel hs e your mind and feel y >> with rachel smith there ar she can put o any a do. >> i'm so glad we did this ultra intensive look into what we are supposed to do with boots. >> tomorrow's installment is -- >> i feel journalistically complete. >> hey, you are rocking it. >> i know that dress is a little
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making news in america this morning -- breaking news. a gunman opens fire inside a mall, sending customers scrambling. no one is hurt. the gunman, found dead moments ago. plus, airport passengers injured. a conveyor belt bursts into flames, just as people were getting off the plane. new images just coming in. also this morning -- a family of three vanishes without a trace. and all investigators have to go on is their abandoned and overturned suv. and an annual late-night tradition. love it or hate it, jimmy kimmel's candy prank is making america laugh by watching kids cry. good morning. we begin this tuesday with terror at one of the nation's largest shopping malls. >> shots rang out at the garde

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